HTS 6XXX Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Sui Dynasty, Mahayana
25 Jan 2013
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Environment and disease migration, patterns of settlement technology. State-building, expansion, and conflict-political structures and forms of governance, expansion. Gender roles and relations, family and kinship, racial and ethnic constructions. The reunification of china after centuries of division into small principalities took place under the sui dynasty but after 34 years in 615 sui collapsed paving the way for the tang dynasty. In 618 powerful li family took advantage of sui disorder to carve out an empire of similar scale and ambition. Tang avoided overcentralizing rule by allowing local nobles, gemntry, officials and religious establishments to have power. Tang emperors and nobility the tang emperors and nobility descended from the turkic elites that build small states in northern china. They continued the confucian system of examining candidates for bureaucratic offices. In warfare tang combined chinese weapons with inner asian (turkic) expertise in horsemanship. Interaction of cultures: buddhism and the tang empire, to chang"an by land and sea, trade and.
